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Magdalene has been supposed to be €€ the woman who was a sinner , " mentioned in the 7 th chapter of Luke ; true it is , that this supposition has been countenanced by the Editors of our Common Version , who have inserted in their summary of this
chapter , the words , " Mary Magdalene anointeth Christ ' s feet ; " true it is also , that the great masters of painting have commonly given to their representations of penitent females the appellation of Magdalenes ; and that the same name has been , and still
continues to be , applied to houses for the reception of women of infamous character , who have . become penitent . But what does all this prove ? It proves nothing at all , but that the name of a most pure and virtuous woman has been most unjustly
traduced . It might have been expected , Sir , tbat when your correspondent at Crediton recollected how Mary Magdalene accompanied her beloved Saviour , " through every city and village ; " how she " ministered to him of her substance ; " how she followed
him up from Galilee to Jerusalem , at the last passover ; stood by him when he was hanging on the cross ; " sat over against the sepulchre" where his body was deposited ; brought spices to embalm it ; ran to tell Peter and John that it was taken awav , and tbat she
knew not where it was laid ; and was the very first person to whom our Lord appeared after his resurrection ;* —it might , I say , have been expected that , when your correspondent
recollected all these unequivocal signs of no ordinary excellence , he would have paused before he hazarded a single word which was injurious to a character so venerable . But no ! it was
enough for him , that he had found a subject for his muse ; and on this subject ( though that which gave it all its point , was , as he himself confesses , a mere supposition ] he forthwith sits down to write . Without allowing himself even a few minutes to consult
a Concordance , and examine whether the supposition had any good foundation or not , he sits down and asperses the character of a most amiable wo-* See Luke viii . 1—3 ; Matt , xxvii . 55 , 56 , 61 ; Mark xvr . 40 , 41 , 47 , xvi . 1 ; Luke xxiii . 49 , 56 , 56 , xxiv . 1 ; John xix . 25 , jiKt l . — } & : Mark- xvi . 9 .
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man , who has every claim upon our esteem and veneration . As well might he have written " a hymn to the everblessed and most adorable Trinity , " on the supposition that the Trinity is a
doctrine of tlie Bible ; for there is quite a 3 little evidence that Mary Magdalene was what she has so often been represented to be , as there is , that the doctrine of the Trinity is contained in the New Testament .
But what is the origin of this error , it will , be asked ? It arose , I conceive , in this way . It has been supposed , that " the woman who was a sinner , " mentioned in the 7 th chapter of Luke f as having anointed our Lord with ointment , was the same with Mary , the sister of Lazarus , who is recorded
in John xu . 1—S , xi . 2 ; Matt . xxvi . 6—13 ; and Mark xiv . 3—9 , to have done the same thing ; and it has also been supposed that Mary Magdalene and Mary , the sister of Lazarus , were one and the same person . But both these suppositions are totally destitute of foundation . The woman mentioned
by Luke was not Mary , the sister of Lazarus ; for , 1 st , the latter was a woman of good character , of unblemished reputation . 2 dly , The anointing , mentioned by Luke , was done at Nain , Capernaum , or some other place in Galilee ; but Mary , the sister of Lazarus , dwelt at Bethany , and her
anointing was done there . 3 dly , The anointing , mentioned by Luke , was in the early part of Christ ' s ministry , for it is recorded in the 7 th chapter of his Gospel ; and it is said , chap . viii . 1 , that " afterward he went through
every city and village preaching ;" but the anointing * spoken of by the other Evangelists , is placed by one of them , siw , ( John xii . 1 , ) and by the others , only two days ( Matt . xxvi . 2 ; Mark xiv . 1 ) before the passover , at which our Lord was crucified . 4 thly ,
The circumstances are very different , for , in Luke , it is Simon the Pharisee * who takes offence at our Lord ' s * It is little to the purpose to say , that the name of the host , on both occasions , was Smion ; for , on the one , it was Simon , a Pharisee ; on the other , Simon the leper ; and the name was very
common among the Jews . We have no fewer than nine Simons mentioned in tne New Testament . Vide Schleusner sui > voce 2 /^ ftw ; vide etiam Cler . et Hammond in loco .
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394 * Vindication of Mary Magdalene
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1825, page 394, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2538/page/10/
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